[mekrob]

Back in High School last year, I used to go to this one forum: College Confidential. It has advice for HS students applying for college, majors, schools, supplies, books, etc.

The students that show up at this discussion board tend to be overwhelmingly intelligent, at least with books that is. And when I say intelligent, I mean it. The average SAT is about 1000 (when I took it). The average here was in the 1400's. The acceptance rate at Ivies is in the single digits, but more than half of these students that apply, get in.

The saddest part is that a part of the board has a place where you can talk about anything, the cafe. Instead of politics, high energy prices, war, economic turmoil acoming, genocide and the like, the threads today have been:
True or False: attractivness=success
Fantasy Football League
Typing dvorak
Clerks 2
Girl Problem (LOL)
Al Gore Rocks
Cell phones
Fasting way to buy a castle
Pirates of the Carribean

Can this get any worse? The people who will be most affected and specifically, the people that actually have a chance to make the world a better place are giggling away, wondering if Ralph Lauren is better than Abercrombie and Fitch. We is fucked.

Edit: I should also mention that I've brought up Peak Oil, oil in general, energy, etc, but they just shrug it off and say don't worry, technology will fix it.

[Kingcoal]

Actually I think the technology-will-fix-it religion is a good one. Some of these smarty pants kids will go into researching alternatives. No, I don't think any of the present alternatives has any promise, but there are some things like carbon nanotube capacitors that might just be the answer.

As far as the rest of them, ignorance is bliss.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ctually I think the technology-will-fix-it religion is a good one.

[Novus]

Most new technology research is going into military aplications so we humans kill each other faster. Yeah, I agree technology will save us but not in the good sci-fi futurist way most technologists are thinking about. It doesn't take a genius to see what's planned for us. Do I even have to say it.

[rogerhb]

Not my kids!

[presidentsherrill]

What is wrong?


MTV
Reality TV
Spoiled
Cell Phones
Video Games
They are the BUSH Generation
24x7 Access to everything



Having nice grades and scoring well on standarized tests, does not make one intelligent. It is actually my theory that the higher a person scores on a standarized test, the easier it is to make that person into a puppet.

[AIM9X]

{Pointless flame deleted - TheTurtle}

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')aving nice grades and scoring well on standarized tests, does not make one intelligent.

[presidentsherrill]

You just freaking lost me. I am not sure if you realize this, but your comments did not address my statement about standardized tests. Crack?

[lotrfan55345]

Abercrombie & Fitch has really lost it's class past the year 2000... even poor/ugly people can now afford to wear it, so it's not kosher anymore. Ralph Lauren is usually targeted towards an older, richer demographic, but be sure anyone who wears their colognes and perfumes is reasonably scene.

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lotrfan55345', 'A')bercrombie & Fitch has really lost it's class past the year 2000... even poor/ugly people can now afford to wear it, so it's not kosher anymore. Ralph Lauren is usually targeted towards an older, richer demographic, but be sure anyone who wears their colognes and perfumes is reasonably scene.

[128shot]

or maybe they're not completely obsessed with peak oil...


or maybe they're willing to acknowledge that this forum may not be the best place to discuss such matters...

[Tyler_JC]

To be fair to CC, the point of that site is to provide information to prospective college students so that they can make a slightly more informed choice of which college to attend.

If everyone on that site writes threads that complain about the food at X University. You might be inclined to ask the tour guide about the food.

If people complain about a particular dorm house, you might be inclined to select a different dorm.

You wouldn't know these things unless you asked a bunch of people who currently attend that college, and what better way to ask those people than on College Confidential?

If people want to talk about Peak Oil, they come to the Peak Oil forums.

If people want to talk about college stuff let them stay in the college forums.

But what about the random off topic junk that people post on that college forum? Well talk about the pot calling the kettle black! HA.

[Kylon]

Don't worry Mekrob.

The less people prepared, the better it is for those who have knowledge of how to be prepared.

For you see, when all their marketing degrees, law degrees, and other such unproductive education(in comparison to things like engineering, medicine, and scientific research) are worthless, and they are scrounging for food, they will look to somebody, ANYBODY who can promise them a better life.

Thus, it's a wonderful opportunity for those of us who are prepared/preparing.

Ontop of that, girls will stop going after guys they like emotionally, and start going out with guys that can feed/cool/shelter/provide for them. That means that they will be more attracted to survival skills in the future, rather than the current superficial crap, like "Woah, that guy is fast, and he has a cute butt!".

Women not wanting to starve to death + Peak Oil + You being prepared and others not = You getting laid.

[Chaparral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lotrfan55345', 'A')bercrombie & Fitch has really lost it's class past the year 2000... even poor/ugly people can now afford to wear it, so it's not kosher anymore. Ralph Lauren is usually targeted towards an older, richer demographic, but be sure anyone who wears their colognes and perfumes is reasonably scene.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') am not sure if you realize this, but your comments did not address my statement about standardized tests.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'I') should also mention that I've brought up Peak Oil, oil in general, energy, etc, but they just shrug it off and say don't worry, technology will fix it.

[peaker_2005]

Yes, my generation is unprepared.

The reason why is because nobody took the time to think, "hey, waitasec, these guys might need some info". We've been addicted to the consumer culture because it makes our family issues seem to go away.

We were never taught how to cook, never asked to do chores (much), and we haven't been disciplined (because, uh, it's politically incorrect).

Is it any wonder we have problems with the youth of today?

The problem is, people haven't thought about the impact of their actions (and believe me, everyone has an impact somehow).

Doly: you seem to forget that most minds are so wrapped up in the modern world. Remember, we've grown up with this, we've never seen anything truly bad in our time.

We haven't been through a real world crisis, so we have zero sense of urgency. I'm an exception because I think different to most. I'm learning to read between the lines in the newspaper (useful skill in times of war).

I'm also grabbing newspapers when a significant event occurred, so I can tell my children "this is what happened, and this is why".

There was a letter in a free distribution newspaper (a rather behind-the-day version of the less trusted paper in Sydney) here. He said something to the effect of "we're sliding into debauchery like Rome did before she fell". I hope I still have it around somewhere. I don't think the writer realised just how close to reality he was...

[lotrfan55345]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lotrfan55345', 'A')bercrombie & Fitch has really lost it's class past the year 2000... even poor/ugly people can now afford to wear it, so it's not kosher anymore. Ralph Lauren is usually targeted towards an older, richer demographic, but be sure anyone who wears their colognes and perfumes is reasonably scene.